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Public Act 0026 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

  
  
  

 


 
Public Act 102-0026
 
HB2643 EnrolledLRB102 14684 RJF 20037 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Identity Protection Act is amended by
changing Section 10 as follows:
 
    (5 ILCS 179/10)
    Sec. 10. Prohibited activities.
    (a) Beginning July 1, 2010, no person or State or local
government agency may do any of the following:
        (1) Publicly post or publicly display in any manner an
    individual's social security number.
        (2) Print an individual's social security number on
    any card required for the individual to access products or
    services provided by the person or entity.
        (3) Require an individual to transmit his or her
    social security number over the Internet, unless the
    connection is secure or the social security number is
    encrypted.
        (4) Print an individual's social security number on
    any materials that are mailed to the individual, through
    the U.S. Postal Service, any private mail service,
    electronic mail, or any similar method of delivery, unless
    State or federal law requires the social security number
    to be on the document to be mailed. Notwithstanding any
    provision in this Section to the contrary, social security
    numbers may be included in applications and forms sent by
    mail, including, but not limited to, any material mailed
    in connection with the administration of the Unemployment
    Insurance Act pursuant to the limitations and requirements
    of that Act, any material mailed in connection with any
    tax administered by the Department of Revenue, and
    documents sent as part of an application or enrollment
    process or to establish, amend, or terminate an account,
    contract, or policy or to confirm the accuracy of the
    social security number. A social security number that may
    permissibly be mailed under this Section may not be
    printed, in whole or in part, on a postcard or other mailer
    that does not require an envelope or be visible on an
    envelope without the envelope having been opened.
    (b) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, beginning
July 1, 2010, no person or State or local government agency may
do any of the following:
        (1) Collect, use, or disclose a social security number
    from an individual, unless (i) required to do so under
    State or federal law, rules, or regulations, or the
    collection, use, or disclosure of the social security
    number is otherwise necessary for the performance of that
    agency's duties and responsibilities; (ii) the need and
    purpose for the social security number is documented
    before collection of the social security number; and (iii)
    the social security number collected is relevant to the
    documented need and purpose.
        (2) Require an individual to use his or her social
    security number to access an Internet website.
        (3) Use the social security number for any purpose
    other than the purpose for which it was collected.
    (c) The prohibitions in subsection (b) do not apply in the
following circumstances:
        (1) The disclosure of social security numbers to
    agents, employees, contractors, or subcontractors of a
    governmental entity or disclosure by a governmental entity
    to another governmental entity or its agents, employees,
    contractors, or subcontractors if disclosure is necessary
    in order for the entity to perform its duties and
    responsibilities; and, if disclosing to a contractor or
    subcontractor, prior to such disclosure, the governmental
    entity must first receive from the contractor or
    subcontractor a copy of the contractor's or
    subcontractor's policy that sets forth how the
    requirements imposed under this Act on a governmental
    entity to protect an individual's social security number
    will be achieved.
        (2) The disclosure of social security numbers pursuant
    to a court order, warrant, or subpoena.
        (3) The collection, use, or disclosure of social
    security numbers in order to ensure the safety of: State
    and local government employees; persons committed to
    correctional facilities, local jails, and other
    law-enforcement facilities or retention centers; wards of
    the State; youth in care as defined in Section 4d of the
    Children and Family Services Act, and all persons working
    in or visiting a State or local government agency
    facility.
        (4) The collection, use, or disclosure of social
    security numbers for internal verification or
    administrative purposes.
        (5) The disclosure of social security numbers by a
    State agency to any entity for the collection of
    delinquent child support or of any State debt or to a
    governmental agency to assist with an investigation or the
    prevention of fraud.
        (6) The collection or use of social security numbers
    to investigate or prevent fraud, to conduct background
    checks, to collect a debt, to obtain a credit report from a
    consumer reporting agency under the federal Fair Credit
    Reporting Act, to undertake any permissible purpose that
    is enumerated under the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or
    to locate a missing person, a lost relative, or a person
    who is due a benefit, such as a pension benefit or an
    unclaimed property benefit.
    (d) If any State or local government agency has adopted
standards for the collection, use, or disclosure of social
security numbers that are stricter than the standards under
this Act with respect to the protection of those social
security numbers, then, in the event of any conflict with the
provisions of this Act, the stricter standards adopted by the
State or local government agency shall control.
(Source: P.A. 100-159, eff. 8-18-17.)
 
    Section 10. The Department of Employment Security Law of
the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding
Section 1005-55 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 1005/1005-55 new)
    Sec. 1005-55. Social security numbers; disclosure
prohibited. Except as required under State or federal law, the
Department shall not disclose an individual's entire social
security number in any correspondence physically mailed to an
individual or entity. The Department shall develop a process
that allows for identifying information other than an
individual's entire social security number to be used in
correspondence. This Section does not apply to electronic data
sharing pursuant to a written agreement containing appropriate
security and confidentiality provisions or to an individual's
or entity's access to information in the individual's or
entity's secure account in the Department's databases.
 
    Section 15. The Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by
changing Sections 612, 900, and 1900 as follows:
 
    (820 ILCS 405/612)  (from Ch. 48, par. 442)
    Sec. 612. Academic personnel - ineligibility between
academic years or terms.
    A. Benefits based on wages for services which are
employment under the provisions of Sections 211.1, 211.2, and
302C shall be payable in the same amount, on the same terms,
and subject to the same conditions as benefits payable on the
basis of wages for other services which are employment under
this Act; except that:
        1. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for employment in an instructional,
    research, or principal administrative capacity performed
    for an institution of higher education, for any week which
    begins during the period between two successive academic
    years, or during a similar period between two regular
    terms, whether or not successive, or during a period of
    paid sabbatical leave provided for in the individual's
    contract, if the individual has a contract or contracts to
    perform services in any such capacity for any institution
    or institutions of higher education for both such academic
    years or both such terms.
        This paragraph 1 shall apply with respect to any week
    which begins prior to January 1, 1978.
        2. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in any
    capacity other than those referred to in paragraph 1,
    performed for an institution of higher learning, for any
    week which begins after September 30, 1983, during a
    period between two successive academic years or terms, if
    the individual performed such service in the first of such
    academic years or terms and there is a reasonable
    assurance that the individual will perform such service in
    the second of such academic years or terms.
        3. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in any
    capacity other than those referred to in paragraph 1,
    performed for an institution of higher education, for any
    week which begins after January 5, 1985, during an
    established and customary vacation period or holiday
    recess, if the individual performed such service in the
    period immediately before such vacation period or holiday
    recess and there is a reasonable assurance that the
    individual will perform such service in the period
    immediately following such vacation period or holiday
    recess.
    B. Benefits based on wages for services which are
employment under the provisions of Sections 211.1 and 211.2
shall be payable in the same amount, on the same terms, and
subject to the same conditions, as benefits payable on the
basis of wages for other services which are employment under
this Act, except that:
        1. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in an
    instructional, research, or principal administrative
    capacity performed for an educational institution, for any
    week which begins after December 31, 1977, during a period
    between two successive academic years, or during a similar
    period between two regular terms, whether or not
    successive, or during a period of paid sabbatical leave
    provided for in the individual's contract, if the
    individual performed such service in the first of such
    academic years (or terms) and if there is a contract or a
    reasonable assurance that the individual will perform
    service in any such capacity for any educational
    institution in the second of such academic years (or
    terms).
        2. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in any
    capacity other than those referred to in paragraph 1,
    performed for an educational institution, for any week
    which begins after December 31, 1977, during a period
    between two successive academic years or terms, if the
    individual performed such service in the first of such
    academic years or terms and there is a reasonable
    assurance that the individual will perform such service in
    the second of such academic years or terms.
        3. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits, on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in any
    capacity performed for an educational institution, for any
    week which begins after January 5, 1985, during an
    established and customary vacation period or holiday
    recess, if the individual performed such service in the
    period immediately before such vacation period or holiday
    recess and there is a reasonable assurance that the
    individual will perform such service in the period
    immediately following such vacation period or holiday
    recess.
        4. An individual shall be ineligible for benefits on
    the basis of wages for service in employment in any
    capacity performed in an educational institution while in
    the employ of an educational service agency for any week
    which begins after January 5, 1985, (a) during a period
    between two successive academic years or terms, if the
    individual performed such service in the first of such
    academic years or terms and there is a reasonable
    assurance that the individual will perform such service in
    the second of such academic years or terms; and (b) during
    an established and customary vacation period or holiday
    recess, if the individual performed such service in the
    period immediately before such vacation period or holiday
    recess and there is a reasonable assurance that the
    individual will perform such service in the period
    immediately following such vacation period or holiday
    recess. The term "educational service agency" means a
    governmental agency or governmental entity which is
    established and operated exclusively for the purpose of
    providing such services to one or more educational
    institutions.
    C. 1. If benefits are denied to any individual under the
provisions of paragraph 2 of either subsection A or B of this
Section for any week which begins on or after September 3, 1982
and such individual is not offered a bona fide opportunity to
perform such services for the educational institution for the
second of such academic years or terms, such individual shall
be entitled to a retroactive payment of benefits for each week
for which the individual filed a timely claim for benefits as
determined by the rules and regulations issued by the Director
for the filing of claims for benefits, provided that such
benefits were denied solely because of the provisions of
paragraph 2 of either subsection A or B of this Section.
    2. If benefits on the basis of wages for service in
employment in other than an instructional, research, or
principal administrative capacity performed in an educational
institution while in the employ of an educational service
agency are denied to any individual under the provisions of
subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4 of subsection B and such
individual is not offered a bona fide opportunity to perform
such services in an educational institution while in the
employ of an educational service agency for the second of such
academic years or terms, such individual shall be entitled to
a retroactive payment of benefits for each week for which the
individual filed a timely claim for benefits as determined by
the rules and regulations issued by the Director for the
filing of claims for benefits, provided that such benefits
were denied solely because of subparagraph (a) of paragraph 4
of subsection B of this Section.
    D. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Section or
paragraph 2 of subsection C of Section 500 to the contrary,
with respect to a week of unemployment beginning on or after
March 15, 2020, and before September 4, 2021, (including any
week of unemployment beginning on or after January 1, 2021 and
on or before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
102nd General Assembly) December 31, 2020, benefits shall be
payable to an individual on the basis of wages for employment
in other than an instructional, research, or principal
administrative capacity performed for an educational
institution or an educational service agency under any of the
circumstances described in this Section, to the extent
permitted under Section 3304(a)(6) of the Federal Unemployment
Tax Act, as long as the individual is otherwise eligible for
benefits.
(Source: P.A. 101-633, eff. 6-5-20.)
 
    (820 ILCS 405/900)  (from Ch. 48, par. 490)
    Sec. 900. Recoupment.)
    A. Whenever an individual has received any sum as benefits
for which he or she is found to have been ineligible, the
individual must be provided written notice of his or her
appeal rights, including the ability to request waiver of any
recoupment ordered and the standard for such waiver to be
granted. Thereafter, the amount thereof may be recovered by
suit in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, or,
from benefits payable to him, may be recouped:
        1. At any time, if, to receive such sum, he knowingly
    made a false statement or knowingly failed to disclose a
    material fact.
        2. Within 3 years from any date prior to January 1,
    1984, on which he has been found to have been ineligible
    for any other reason, pursuant to a reconsidered finding
    or a reconsidered determination, or pursuant to the
    decision of a Referee (or of the Director or his
    representative under Section 604) which modifies or sets
    aside a finding or a reconsidered finding or a
    determination or a reconsidered determination; or within 5
    years from any date after December 31, 1983, on which he
    has been found to have been ineligible for any other
    reason, pursuant to a reconsidered finding or a
    reconsidered determination, or pursuant to the decision of
    a Referee (or of the Director or his representative under
    Section 604) which modifies or sets aside a finding or a
    reconsidered finding or a determination or a reconsidered
    determination. Recoupment pursuant to the provisions of
    this paragraph from benefits payable to an individual for
    any week may be waived upon the individual's request, if
    the sum referred to in paragraph A was received by the
    individual without fault on his part and if such
    recoupment would be against equity and good conscience.
    Such waiver may be denied with respect to any subsequent
    week if, in that week, the facts and circumstances upon
    which waiver was based no longer exist.
    Recovery by suit in the name of the People of the State of
Illinois, recoupment pursuant to paragraph 2 of this
subsection A from benefits payable to an individual for any
week, and, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in
the Illinois State Collection Act of 1986, withholding
pursuant to subsection E shall be permanently waived if the
sum referred to in this subsection A was received by the
individual without fault on his or her part and if such
recoupment would be against equity and good conscience, and
the sum referred to in this subsection A was received by the
individual on or after March 8, 2020, but prior to the last day
of a disaster period established by the gubernatorial disaster
proclamation in response to COVID-19, dated March 9, 2020, and
any consecutive gubernatorial disaster proclamation in
response to COVID-19. To be eligible for permanent waiver
under this paragraph, an individual must request a waiver
pursuant to this paragraph within 45 days of the mailing date
of the notice from the Department that the individual may
request a waiver. A determination under this paragraph may be
appealed to a Referee within the time limits prescribed by
Section 800 for an appeal from a determination. Any such
appeal, and any appeal from the Referee's decision thereon,
shall be governed by the applicable provisions of Sections
801, 803, 804, and 805. This paragraph shall not apply with
respect to benefits that are received pursuant to any program
that the Department administers as an agent of the federal
government and for which the individual is found to have been
ineligible.
    B. Whenever the claims adjudicator referred to in Section
702 decides that any sum received by a claimant as benefits
shall be recouped, or denies recoupment waiver requested by
the claimant, he shall promptly notify the claimant of his
decision and the reasons therefor. The decision and the notice
thereof shall state the amount to be recouped, the weeks with
respect to which such sum was received by the claimant, and the
time within which it may be recouped and, as the case may be,
the reasons for denial of recoupment waiver. The claims
adjudicator may reconsider his decision within one year after
the date when the decision was made. Such decision or
reconsidered decision may be appealed to a Referee within the
time limits prescribed by Section 800 for appeal from a
determination. Any such appeal, and any appeal from the
Referee's decision thereon, shall be governed by the
applicable provisions of Sections 801, 803, 804 and 805. No
recoupment shall be begun until the expiration of the time
limits prescribed by Section 800 of this Act or, if an appeal
has been filed, until the decision of a Referee has been made
thereon affirming the decision of the Claims Adjudicator.
    C. Any sums recovered under the provisions of this Section
shall be treated as repayments to the Department of sums
improperly obtained by the claimant.
    D. Whenever, by reason of a back pay award made by any
governmental agency or pursuant to arbitration proceedings, or
by reason of a payment of wages wrongfully withheld by an
employing unit, an individual has received wages for weeks
with respect to which he has received benefits, the amount of
such benefits may be recouped or otherwise recovered as herein
provided. An employing unit making a back pay award to an
individual for weeks with respect to which the individual has
received benefits shall make the back pay award by check
payable jointly to the individual and to the Department.
    E. The amount recouped pursuant to paragraph 2 of
subsection A from benefits payable to an individual for any
week shall not exceed 25% of the individual's weekly benefit
amount.
    In addition to the remedies provided by this Section, when
an individual has received any sum as benefits for which he is
found to be ineligible, the Director may request the
Comptroller to withhold such sum in accordance with Section
10.05 of the State Comptroller Act and the Director may
request the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold such sum to
the extent allowed by and in accordance with Section 6402(f)
of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Benefits paid pursuant to this Act shall not be subject to such
withholding. Where the Director requests withholding by the
Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to this Section, in
addition to the amount of benefits for which the individual
has been found ineligible, the individual shall be liable for
any legally authorized administrative fee assessed by the
Secretary, with such fee to be added to the amount to be
withheld by the Secretary.
(Source: P.A. 97-621, eff. 11-18-11; 97-791, eff. 1-1-13.)
 
    (820 ILCS 405/1900)  (from Ch. 48, par. 640)
    Sec. 1900. Disclosure of information.
    A. Except as provided in this Section, information
obtained from any individual or employing unit during the
administration of this Act shall:
        1. be confidential,
        2. not be published or open to public inspection,
        3. not be used in any court in any pending action or
    proceeding,
        4. not be admissible in evidence in any action or
    proceeding other than one arising out of this Act.
    B. No finding, determination, decision, ruling or order
(including any finding of fact, statement or conclusion made
therein) issued pursuant to this Act shall be admissible or
used in evidence in any action other than one arising out of
this Act, nor shall it be binding or conclusive except as
provided in this Act, nor shall it constitute res judicata,
regardless of whether the actions were between the same or
related parties or involved the same facts.
    C. Any officer or employee of this State, any officer or
employee of any entity authorized to obtain information
pursuant to this Section, and any agent of this State or of
such entity who, except with authority of the Director under
this Section or as authorized pursuant to subsection P-1,
shall disclose information shall be guilty of a Class B
misdemeanor and shall be disqualified from holding any
appointment or employment by the State.
    D. An individual or his duly authorized agent may be
supplied with information from records only to the extent
necessary for the proper presentation of his claim for
benefits or with his existing or prospective rights to
benefits. Discretion to disclose this information belongs
solely to the Director and is not subject to a release or
waiver by the individual. Notwithstanding any other provision
to the contrary, an individual or his or her duly authorized
agent may be supplied with a statement of the amount of
benefits paid to the individual during the 18 months preceding
the date of his or her request.
    E. An employing unit may be furnished with information,
only if deemed by the Director as necessary to enable it to
fully discharge its obligations or safeguard its rights under
the Act. Discretion to disclose this information belongs
solely to the Director and is not subject to a release or
waiver by the employing unit.
    F. The Director may furnish any information that he may
deem proper to any public officer or public agency of this or
any other State or of the federal government dealing with:
        1. the administration of relief,
        2. public assistance,
        3. unemployment compensation,
        4. a system of public employment offices,
        5. wages and hours of employment, or
        6. a public works program.
    The Director may make available to the Illinois Workers'
Compensation Commission information regarding employers for
the purpose of verifying the insurance coverage required under
the Workers' Compensation Act and Workers' Occupational
Diseases Act.
    G. The Director may disclose information submitted by the
State or any of its political subdivisions, municipal
corporations, instrumentalities, or school or community
college districts, except for information which specifically
identifies an individual claimant.
    H. The Director shall disclose only that information
required to be disclosed under Section 303 of the Social
Security Act, as amended, including:
        1. any information required to be given the United
    States Department of Labor under Section 303(a)(6); and
        2. the making available upon request to any agency of
    the United States charged with the administration of
    public works or assistance through public employment, the
    name, address, ordinary occupation and employment status
    of each recipient of unemployment compensation, and a
    statement of such recipient's right to further
    compensation under such law as required by Section
    303(a)(7); and
        3. records to make available to the Railroad
    Retirement Board as required by Section 303(c)(1); and
        4. information that will assure reasonable cooperation
    with every agency of the United States charged with the
    administration of any unemployment compensation law as
    required by Section 303(c)(2); and
        5. information upon request and on a reimbursable
    basis to the United States Department of Agriculture and
    to any State food stamp agency concerning any information
    required to be furnished by Section 303(d); and
        6. any wage information upon request and on a
    reimbursable basis to any State or local child support
    enforcement agency required by Section 303(e); and
        7. any information required under the income
    eligibility and verification system as required by Section
    303(f); and
        8. information that might be useful in locating an
    absent parent or that parent's employer, establishing
    paternity or establishing, modifying, or enforcing child
    support orders for the purpose of a child support
    enforcement program under Title IV of the Social Security
    Act upon the request of and on a reimbursable basis to the
    public agency administering the Federal Parent Locator
    Service as required by Section 303(h); and
        9. information, upon request, to representatives of
    any federal, State or local governmental public housing
    agency with respect to individuals who have signed the
    appropriate consent form approved by the Secretary of
    Housing and Urban Development and who are applying for or
    participating in any housing assistance program
    administered by the United States Department of Housing
    and Urban Development as required by Section 303(i).
    I. The Director, upon the request of a public agency of
Illinois, of the federal government or of any other state
charged with the investigation or enforcement of Section 10-5
of the Criminal Code of 2012 (or a similar federal law or
similar law of another State), may furnish the public agency
information regarding the individual specified in the request
as to:
        1. the current or most recent home address of the
    individual, and
        2. the names and addresses of the individual's
    employers.
    J. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to interfere
with the disclosure of certain records as provided for in
Section 1706 or with the right to make available to the
Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department of
the Treasury, or the Department of Revenue of the State of
Illinois, information obtained under this Act. With respect to
each benefit claim that appears to have been filed other than
by the individual in whose name the claim was filed or by the
individual's authorized agent and with respect to which
benefits were paid during the prior calendar year, the
Director shall annually report to the Department of Revenue
information that is in the Director's possession and may
assist in avoiding negative income tax consequences for the
individual in whose name the claim was filed.
    K. The Department shall make available to the Illinois
Student Assistance Commission, upon request, information in
the possession of the Department that may be necessary or
useful to the Commission in the collection of defaulted or
delinquent student loans which the Commission administers.
    L. The Department shall make available to the State
Employees' Retirement System, the State Universities
Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of the
State of Illinois, and the Department of Central Management
Services, Risk Management Division, upon request, information
in the possession of the Department that may be necessary or
useful to the System or the Risk Management Division for the
purpose of determining whether any recipient of a disability
benefit from the System or a workers' compensation benefit
from the Risk Management Division is gainfully employed.
    M. This Section shall be applicable to the information
obtained in the administration of the State employment
service, except that the Director may publish or release
general labor market information and may furnish information
that he may deem proper to an individual, public officer or
public agency of this or any other State or the federal
government (in addition to those public officers or public
agencies specified in this Section) as he prescribes by Rule.
    N. The Director may require such safeguards as he deems
proper to insure that information disclosed pursuant to this
Section is used only for the purposes set forth in this
Section.
    O. Nothing in this Section prohibits communication with an
individual or entity through unencrypted e-mail or other
unencrypted electronic means as long as the communication does
not contain the individual's or entity's name in combination
with any one or more of the individual's or entity's entire or
partial social security number; driver's license or State
identification number; credit or debit card number; or any
required security code, access code, or password that would
permit access to further information pertaining to the
individual or entity.
    P. (Blank).
    P-1. With the express written consent of a claimant or
employing unit and an agreement not to publicly disclose, the
Director shall provide requested information related to a
claim to an elected official performing constituent services
or his or her agent.
    Q. The Director shall make available to an elected federal
official the name and address of an individual or entity that
is located within the jurisdiction from which the official was
elected and that, for the most recently completed calendar
year, has reported to the Department as paying wages to
workers, where the information will be used in connection with
the official duties of the official and the official requests
the information in writing, specifying the purposes for which
it will be used. For purposes of this subsection, the use of
information in connection with the official duties of an
official does not include use of the information in connection
with the solicitation of contributions or expenditures, in
money or in kind, to or on behalf of a candidate for public or
political office or a political party or with respect to a
public question, as defined in Section 1-3 of the Election
Code, or in connection with any commercial solicitation. Any
elected federal official who, in submitting a request for
information covered by this subsection, knowingly makes a
false statement or fails to disclose a material fact, with the
intent to obtain the information for a purpose not authorized
by this subsection, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.
    R. The Director may provide to any State or local child
support agency, upon request and on a reimbursable basis,
information that might be useful in locating an absent parent
or that parent's employer, establishing paternity, or
establishing, modifying, or enforcing child support orders.
    S. The Department shall make available to a State's
Attorney of this State or a State's Attorney's investigator,
upon request, the current address or, if the current address
is unavailable, current employer information, if available, of
a victim of a felony or a witness to a felony or a person
against whom an arrest warrant is outstanding.
    T. The Director shall make available to the Department of
State Police, a county sheriff's office, or a municipal police
department, upon request, any information concerning the
current address and place of employment or former places of
employment of a person who is required to register as a sex
offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act that may be
useful in enforcing the registration provisions of that Act.
    U. The Director shall make information available to the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the
Department of Human Services for the purpose of determining
eligibility for public benefit programs authorized under the
Illinois Public Aid Code and related statutes administered by
those departments, for verifying sources and amounts of
income, and for other purposes directly connected with the
administration of those programs.
    V. The Director shall make information available to the
State Board of Elections as may be required by an agreement the
State Board of Elections has entered into with a multi-state
voter registration list maintenance system.
    W. The Director shall make information available to the
State Treasurer's office and the Department of Revenue for the
purpose of facilitating compliance with the Illinois Secure
Choice Savings Program Act, including employer contact
information for employers with 25 or more employees and any
other information the Director deems appropriate that is
directly related to the administration of this program.
    X. The Director shall make information available, upon
request, to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for the
purpose of determining eligibility for the adult vocational
community college scholarship program under Section 65.105 of
the Higher Education Student Assistance Act.
    Y. Except as required under State or federal law, or
unless otherwise provided for in this Section, the Department
shall not disclose an individual's entire social security
number in any correspondence physically mailed to an
individual or entity.
(Source: P.A. 100-484, eff. 9-8-17; 101-315, eff. 1-1-20.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 6/25/2021